"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."

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Source : "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

Chuck Palahniuk

#Inspiring Quotes #Effort Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.”
“Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.”
“I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.”
“I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort--I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form--all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.”

Source : "Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.
“There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.82, Macmillan
“Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.”
“Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.”
“Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul”

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